How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Weakness No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ CP areas to grasp... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...